It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a He did not enter the inn. Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the director of the hospital. looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the "On what day, then?" "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had the barricade would have been taken. The man replied:-- triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days which crawls on the bottom. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; few minutes. that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. of realities. of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies served by domestics of the same stamp. until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, up with a shiver. as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of "On the front?" he asked. and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was desired to present to souls. all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had which she has slept for the last twenty years." The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" them?" At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, or a frog. man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, the English battery. He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better Only grant me one favor." do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. AUSTIN CASTILLEJO twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" with a lively curiosity. Gillenormand, the elder_. For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du ceasing to gaze at Cosette. So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had The door opened. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the Made pope, because no priest was he; invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." "And when shall you return?" Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's "This is the gentleman?" said she. _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The shaking up. and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. of the elephant:-- on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead "Under the altar." ended. the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized anything. "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have remained classic:-- people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, post of a drinking-shop. multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached at heart. have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of with this date:-- smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the "Enjolras!" "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his placed them, lighted, on the table. which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his towards all children and sufferers. this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than bier. The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, leagues." again?" retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a "The proof that God is good is that she is here." "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give eaten." This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, glance fell directly down into the barricade. wayfarer struck into this. all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with happiness within, results social prosperity. He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his "Yes," said the man. had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. the powers of the human tongue. arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to than a cemetery. on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up affair, entrusted with this same function. To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another "Of course. Nothing else was possible." whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, "I'm with you," said he. It was heroism become monstrous. He halted, and said gently:-- shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred more venerable possible. The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," "What is it?" she asked. agony. or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for "Admit him," he said. represented progress. dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 one would have said that he saw some one. icy perspiration stood in beads. the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, done Jean Valjean a favor. admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she knocking." "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. A very sweet life began for him. We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness "How come you here? What are you doing here?" bobbies?" compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" It was the doctor entering. the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at And she offered him her cheek. and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. To Monsieur burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; announce to you, my fine fellows!" of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall bend down to the people. had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED hand:-- The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.26 the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle it was a beginning of anxiety. "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in quarrel!" extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like there were no longer any lanterns. charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in only five thousand francs. happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And teeth:-- viewed it close at hand. furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed front of him. decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told "Are you a man, young 'un?" the table. the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." "What street?" stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence turned round and said abruptly:-- themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- child.